Number one: Your views on knighthood and knights should not be incompatible with the knight to whom you squire. There are things to be learned from every knight in the Society, but the one who makes you his squire will influence you the most. If you are constantly questioning your knight's opinions or actions it will make following that knight much harder. You, or your knight, or both would quickly come to regret the relationship.

Number two: Your squire brothers and sisters, as well as other members of your knight's household, should be people with whom you can work. You will come into just as close contact with them as with your knight. If you can't trust your squire brother, whom can you trust? And you need to be able to trust your fellow squires. Your Knight, your squire brothers, sisters and household siblings' actions will reflect on you, and vice versa. This is a two-way street that works negatively and positively so choose your Squire Sib's carefully as they and the knight are a package deal.

Number three: Spend time with the knight you most want to squire to. Every knight -squire relationship is different, but you can learn a lot about a knight by the way they treat their squires. It is in the private moments more than the public ones that you will learn the most from your knight. With that in mind it would be very hard to see what a knight teaches his squires if you only see the public moments. Doing so also would give you a better idea about the things discussed in points one and two.

Number four: If you live far from this knight will it be easy or hard to interact with them? Many is the squire who has found themselves getting a new job hundreds or even thousands of miles away from their knight. Many are the knights who have also moved far away from their squires. In the best of worlds your knight would be just around the corner, but in the real world that just isn't so. If the knight you have chosen has squires far away talk to them if you can. They are the ones who can tell you best if that knight can serve as teacher, friend, parent, and all the other things a knight is to a squire from a distance. Something is always lost in a long distance relationship, but some knights are better at it than others. Choose wisely on this count.

Those are the major points of my speech, and they have been generalized greatly. The specifics as they pertain to Sir Myles are not contained here because the aim here is to make folks think about what it means to be the squire to a specific knight. When someone comes to me or is sent to me by Sir Myles, then they would no doubt receive benefit of my experiences and opinions of what it is like to be Sir Myles' squire. As to my views regarding being a squire and what knights and knighthood are those are topics for other writings.